assert itself

idiom

: to become apparent : to start to be clearly seen or known

Doubts about the value of the work began to assert themselves.

Examples of assert itself in a Sentence

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So Joe Biden is spending the waning days of his presidency making sure that the U.S.’s biggest economic rival won’t have the materials needed to assert itself in the rapidly developing technology field. —Melvin Backman, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2024

Instead, as political and economic challenges have arisen, the CCP’s response has been to assert itself and exercise its power. —Margaret M. Pearson, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2022

But a common theme among the documentarians who discussed their process was the importance of being open to receiving how a story evolves and engineering situations in which the story can assert itself. —Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 26 June 2024

The outbreak of war in Gaza has fortified Saudi Arabia’s support for the two-state solution and given it an opportunity to assert itself as the leader of the Arab and Islamic worlds. —Lina Khatib, Foreign Affairs, 4 Dec. 2023